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			<h1>They sent me an SGH-i727!?</h1>
			<p>Day 00508: <time>Wednesday, 2016 July 27</time></p>
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	My mother scheduled an interview here in Springfield for tomorrow.
	My mother doesn&quot;t want to live near my father though, so if they get the job, we&quot;ll be moving to Eugine.
	Eugine is pretty flat, so it&quot;ll be easy to traverse, it&quot;s nearby, so the climate will be similar to Springfield, and it&quot;s a large enough city to have job opportunities.
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	My credit card from the credit union arrived in the mail today.
	I only have the line of credit through them for legacy reasons, and tend not to use it, but it&quot;s nice to know that this time, the card is in my hands.
	That way, it didn&quot;t get delivered to someone else by mistake and I won&quot;t be footing someone else&quot;s bill.
	My Cricket <abbr title="subscriber identity module">SIM</abbr> card arrived in the mail as well.
	Supposedly, I was supposed to sign for it, but no signature was actually required.
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	My mobile arrived in the mail as well! As I opened the package though, I looked in horror as the AT&amp;T logo slid into view.
	An international device wouldn&quot;t have an AT&amp; logo.
	This wasn&quot;t my GT-i9100! It turns out that it&quot;s an SGH-i727, which, obviously, is an AT&amp;T device.
	Instead of being an international Galaxy S II, it&quot;s a Galaxy S II Skyrocket.
	Clearly, the seller thought that they could pull a fast one and label their product online as a GT-i9100, while sending an inferior product instead.
	Cyrus thinks that there was a shipping mistake, and that someone else must have the device that was meant for me, while I received the device that they had intended to purchase.
	My mother thinks that the seller may have thought that they were sending me a better device than I ordered, potentially as an &quot;upgrade&quot; due to their being out of stock of the device that I had actually paid for.
	The device has 4G compatibility (the GT-I9100 does not), but as it&quot;s AT&amp;T-specific, it probably only gets 2G service on T-Mobile&quot;s towers.
	The seller doesn&quot;t know if I plan to use AT&amp;T towers or T-Mobile towers.
	It&quot;s true that I&quot;m on AT&amp;T towers for now, but in less than two months, I&quot;ll be on the T-Mobile towers.
	That doesn&quot;t even take into account the real issue though.
	This device isn&quot;t supported by Replicant.
	I wrote to the seller, pretending not to be furious, and said that they must have accidentally sent me the wrong product.
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	The seller wrote back same-day, saying that the factory might have mixed up the order, and that someone else might have my device.
	In other words, they were claiming Cyrus&quot; story, but disclaiming responsibility for the mixup.
	They said that they can&quot;t send the correct device now though, because they&quot;re out of stock of my device, which sounds like the factory might have performed the &quot;upgrade&quot; that my mother suggested had happened.
	The seller said that if I was willing to keep the device, they&quot;d give me a partial refund on it, or I could send it back for a full refund.
	If the device was at least Replicant-compatible, it would still be useful, and there would be a reason to keep it.
	However, having only a partial refund for a device that doesn&quot;t run Replicant means paying for a device that I can&quot;t even use.
	I opted for the refund, and will send it back tomorrow using the shipping label that the seller sent me.
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